Tegan & Sara Sign To Mom+Pop Music, Release New Song/Video, Amazon Series Coming

Tegan + Sara (Photo: Pamela Littky)

Multi-platinum CANADIAN duo TEGAN & SARA have shared a new single, “Fucking Up What Matters,” the first music they’ve released since signing with new label MOM+POP MUSIC. The new song reflects one of the biggest career changes for the duo, leaving their longtime label home to sign with the independent company, where they were signed by MICHAEL GOLDSTONE, coming full circle.

Said the pair: “MICHAEL GOLDSTONE signed us to SIRE/WARNER in 2006. We had just made 'The Con' and felt like the vision GOLDIE and the team at SIRE had for us and the album were a good fit. But soon after he signed us, he left to start MOM+POP.  We never held it against him. But joked that one day we'd work together for real. So it was with great enthusiasm that we agreed to sign to MOM+POP when our deal with WARNER ended in 2021.  We look forward to being back at an indie label, on a brilliant roster, with GOLDIE and the label’s incredible team helping us start this next chapter in our lives with the release of our tenth album.”

GOLDSTONE told VARIETY, "Since signing them to SIRE, I have watched TEGAN & SARA grow and thrive as artists, and as people become more important and relevant than ever. I have always been proud to call them my friends and I hoped there would come a time when we could work together again in a creative capacity. When I started MOM+POP, I took inspiration from them as they encouraged us to build a label that strived for equitability, diversity, and flexibility in all aspects of the business. It is a surreal moment to welcome these career artists to MOM+POP and to partner with them in continuing their musical arc as well as supporting them in all of the amazing advocacy work they do.”

The new single reflects the turbulence the twins felt in both their own lives and the world at large over the past several years. “Fucking Up What Matters” was co-produced with JOHN CONGLETON (SHARON VAN ETTEN, ANGEL OLSEN and FUTURE ISLANDS) and will be found on their forthcoming tenth album. It’s accompanied by a TONY WOLSKI-directed video featuring "High School" stars RAILEY and SEAZYNN GILLILAND. 

TEGAN QUIN explains: “Fucking Up What Matters” felt like an ode to the moment in your life when you realize that you have most, if not all of the things you wanted and you start to think about what would happen if you just walked away from it all. It's the moment in the middle of the night when you start to daydream about something else, something you never imagined.  It's the feeling you have when you think you might have hit a new low, and yet you've never felt so good.  Sometimes it's admitting that you can't stop yourself from fucking up what matters, that you feel your strongest.  And as my mom would say, it's often when we're fucking up what matters, that we're learning the most about ourselves."

"High School" is a new AMAZON FREEVEE (formerly IMDb TV) Original coming-of-age series co-created and executive produced by TEGAN and SARA QUIN with CLEA DuVALL based off of the twins’ critically acclaimed, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling memoir of the same name.

Produced by Plan B ENTERTAINMENT and AMAZON STUDIOS, "High School" stars TIKTOK creators and TV newcomers RAILEY and SEAZYNN GILLILAND portraying the high school versions of TEGAN and SARA. Special guest stars COBIE SMULDERS and KYLE BORNHEIMER will also join the cast, playing the twins’ parents. The series is currently in production in CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA.

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